Exam 7: Intellectual Property and Cyber Piracy

A mark that indicates that a person has met the standards set by an organization and is a member of that organization is known as a(n)________ mark.

Intellectual property falls into a category of property known as ________.

Which of the following types of patents is valid only for a period of 14 years?

________ is a legal right that gives the author of qualifying subject matter, and who meets other requirements established by law, the exclusive right to publish, produce, sell, license, and distribute the work.

A company logo would be an example of a ________.

Which one of the following would constitute a copyright infringement?

Uploading copyrighted material to an unauthorized web site by a non-copyright holder would count as an act of copyright infringement under the ________.

Copyrights owned by businesses are protected for 95 years from the year of first publication.

A provisional application for a patent gives an inventor three months to prepare a final patent application.

Abstractions and scientific principles cannot be patented unless they are part of the tangible environment.

The fair use doctrine for copyrights does not allow reproduction of a work in a legislative or judicial proceeding.

A utility patent is a patent that may be obtained for the ornamental nonfunctional design of an item.

What is acquiring secondary meaning in trademark terms?

What happens to a copyrighted work after it has finished its copyright period with regards to its ownership?

Apart from recovering damages, and recovering profits made by the offender, successful plaintiffs in a misappropriation of a trade secret case can also ________.

In the United States, the first person to invent an item or a process is given patent protection over a later inventor who was first to file a patent application.

A collective membership mark identifies different products in the same product line of an organization.

After the copyright period runs out, the work enters the public domain.

A ________ is a term for a mark that has become a common term for a product line or type of service and therefore has lost its trademark protection.

A party that does not register its brand name has no legal right over it.